funnel
The definition of a funnel is a cone-shaped utensil with openings at the base and the tip.
(noun)An example of funnel is what people use to add motor oil to their car without spilling.
See funnel in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- an instrument consisting of an inverted cone with a hole at the small end, or a tapering or cylindrical tube with a wide, cone-shaped mouth, for pouring liquids and powders into containers that have small openings
- a thing shaped like a funnel
- a cylindrical smokestack, as of a steamship
- a chimney or flue
Origin: ME fonel < (prob. via an OFr form) Prov fonilh, enfonilh < L fundibulum, infundibulum, a funnel < infundere, to pour in < in-, in- + fundere, to pour: see found
intransitive verb, transitive verb funneled or funnelled, funneling or funnelling
- to move or pour through a funnel
- to form in the shape of a funnel
- to move into a central channel or to a central point
See funnel in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- a. A conical utensil having a small hole or narrow tube at the apex and used to channel the flow of a substance, as into a small-mouthed container.b. Something resembling this utensil in shape.
- A shaft, flue, or stack for ventilation or the passage of smoke, especially the smokestack of a ship or locomotive.
- To take the shape of a funnel.
- To move through or as if through a funnel: tourists funneling slowly through customs.
- To cause to take the shape of a funnel.
- To cause to move through or as if through a funnel.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English fonel
Origin: , from Provençal fonilh
Origin: , from Late Latin fundibulum
Origin: , from Latin īnfundibulum
Origin: , from īnfundere, to pour in; see infuse
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